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Show 758 Theatrum Botanicum. Cuar.16. Trise6, poy fonfill herbe; and therefore I thinke it fhouldbeare a Strawberrie like head, whereunto I am the rather per=: {waded, becanfe that as Banhinus citeth, although wrong~ Fragaria vulgais. CommonStrawberries, fully, a8 Ithinke, for I cannot finde it in-him, Ge/ner ix hortis that he fhouldcall one Fragaria parvafloreluteo : the rootes are blacke andftringie. 4. Fragaria minime ve(ca, Barrenor unprofitable Strawbetrics. <c 7 <sS Ge : . This Strawberricis in the growing altogether like thé a Oy} A, ZA Obs Hig Ke hot inflammations in the eyes,and to takte awayany filme clearé and fmooth:fome wife thereofto make a water for any outward medicine can helpe in this orskinthat beginneth togrow over them, or other defeéts in them that into abraffe veffell, with a little fale calt them pat and pleate, you ies Strawberr of quantitie manner: Take what e the berrics willbe diffolvipon them, whichbeing covered,fetinto a wine cellar foreight dayes, in whichtim ftopped to ufe when you needez ved into a greene water,which being cleared from the reft,keepein a glaffe clofe both falt aud braffe for the a droppeor twoput into the eyes ferveth for the purpofe aforefaid + formein miflikingphew, leprey, ot the like in eyes, makea water both for the eyes and for the deformities 1n the skinne, be it mor ies as they thinke metefor this manner: Intoalarge deftillatory or bodyof glaffe, they‘put femany Strawbert Well clofed, Jet it. be fecin'a Bed of hot horfe their ufe,ifa few, the leffer glaffe body will ferve, which being ‘for your ules dungfor twelveor fourteene dayes,and after diftilled carefully andthe warer kept ordinary kindes, with leaves triparted ftanding on feve- tall {talkes and flowers, inthe fame mannerbut fmaller, the fruite onely maketh the difference betwixt them, which being {mall and many fettegether, are fere and drie without fappe and of an harfh unpleafantcafte. as peA A Crap, XVII. ' The Place, Alpine, Thethree firlt plants grow upon divers of the Alpes, Chick weede. 7 and other places of Germany, and the laft in our owne Land in moft woods and the fields fides neare unto them, ' uk places, others ups Here aré fo manyforts of Chickweedes, fome chiefely growing in moift and watery to plantina on driemountaines, fome intheFields, others in the Woods;-fome worthy ofones pairies Garden, others of no fuchrefpect that 1 mutt feverre chetny’and intreace of{ome in an other Clafiis wherethey are fitteft to be (poke of s youfhalltherefore*have thofe evprefledin this Chapter,and the , ; two next that follow that I thinke fiit for this place. ; = Se in Cornewall,as Lobel {aith, but in otherplaces alfo. The Time, * They flower in 44a, when the otherforts doe for the moft part or fomewhatlater, and the fraite isripe quick~ ly after. 1. Alfine repens baccifera. Great {preading Chickweede. ~ This great Chickwéede bringth forth many flexible branchesfullofjoynts, mee higher than aman ifit-ftand by bufhes, or other things where it may take hold, otherwife through weakeneffe lying on the ground, it fee- The Names, The wholeplant is called in Latiné Fragaria, and thé ordinary meth notfo long,at every of the joynts ftand two leaves one againft the other,fomewhat like unto the and of a Chickweede leaves, but much larger, ¢omming fomewhat neare‘anto thofe of Pelletory of the wall, berries Fraga a frattus fragrantia odoris & guftus, for it hath no certaine Grecke name that I know, unlefleas Trae fet freth greene colourtat the joynts likewife on both fides of the ftalkes come forth’other branches, joynted and with leaves inthe fame mayner; and at the ends ofthem large greene round huskes ending in five points, with whole flowers growingontof them, confilting of five and fometimesoffixe white leaves apeece cut in at the gus thinketh it may be referred to the seipvae of Diofto~ vides, or as others thinke tothe xs.«es7 Comaron of Apule~ aus, but neither of them is likely : others fuppofe that Diofcorides did underftand this plant underhis 7er=guanes fome have called it Rebus Ideus nonfpinofus, but there is a fhrubbe like unto the Rafpis that beareth no'thornes, as I have fhewed in my formér Booke. Péixy maketh mention of Fraga, lib.25.¢.9. Servius calleth them AZora ter= reffria, and therefore fome would referreit to the (hamcbatus :the Italians call the plant Fragheria, and the berries Fraghe and Fragole ; the Freach Fraifier and Fraifes, the Germans call the fruit sg Erdbeer,and the Dutch Erdtbeficw, and we in Englifs Strawberries; The firft here ends, in which huskes after the fowers are paft {tand {mall round headslike berries, greeneat the firft, and black- ith when theyare ripe, containing withia them many flat blackifh purple feed : the roote is white and long creeping much under ground, and {hooting forth indivers places every yeare new fhootes,the old dying downe svery yeare : this hathnotalte, buthetbye as the ordinary Chickweedes have, and thereforeis by the judgement 1. Alfine repensbaccifera. Great {preading Chickweede. 3. Fragaria Helvetica nana. fet forth isthe third Fragaria ofTragu, which hefaith the people about Spires in matessits: Germany doecall Harbeer ; and-Gefner ix hortis: Germaniz calleth Fragarie (pecies minor : the fecond is called by Cefalpinus Fragarie genus in eAlpibus ; and Banhinus Fragaria bisfru tum gerens : the third is likely to be the Fragaria flore luteo ofBaubinus who citeth Ge/nerin hortis, as {aid in the defcription, to call it fo ; and I thinkeit mayas well agree unto the Lencas of Lebel which Bashinus feemeth to make anotherplant differing therefrom, calling it Fragarie affinis fericea incana, for the defcriptions are very correfpondent : the laft is that which Lobe! calleth Fragariafylue[tris minim: vefca five fterilie, but isnot that! which Gerard calleth Fragaria ve(ca five fterilis, whic) is another plant, asl have fhewedbefore, The Vertues, Cuar. 17, 759 The Theater of Plants. TRiBeE 6. ) Thefe Strawberries that are here (et forth and fic to be eaten, are of the fame WRX qualitie with the other garden kinds expreffed inmy fornterBooke, the leaves ANI of themall being cooling in the firltdegree, and yet fome fay hot‘and drying in i the fecond,the roote is more drying and binding,the berries while they are greene are cold and drie, but when they areripe they are cold and moift : the berries are excellent good to coole the liver, the bloud and fpleene, or an hot chollericke ftomacke to refrefh and comfort the fainting {pirits, and tc guenchthirft ; they are good alfo for other inflammations, yet it behoveth one tobe cautelous, or rather to re- fraine them ina fever. lea(t by their putrefying in the ftomacke, they encreafe the fits and caufe them to be the morefierce: the leaves and rootes boiled in wine and water and drunke, doe likewife coole the liver and bloud, and affwage all inflammations in the raines and bladder, provoketh urine, and allaieth the heate and fharpenefle thereof: the {amealfo being drunkeftaieth the blondy flixe and womens courfes, and helpeth the {wellings of the fpleene : the water of the berries carefully diftilled, isa foveraigne remedy and cordiall in the palpitations of the heart, that is, the panting and beating of the heart, and is goodfor the overflowing of the gall, the yellow jaundife; the juyce dropped into’foule ulcers, or they wathed therewith or with the decottion of theherbe and roote, doth wonderfully ‘clenfe them and helpe to cure them, All lotions and gargles that are made for fore mouthes or ulcers therein, or in the privie parts, or elfe where are made with the leaves and rootes hereof, which is good alfo to ‘faften loofe teeth, and to heale {pungie foule gummes: the fame alfo helpeth to tay catarrhes or defluxions of rheume into the mouth, throate, teethor eyes: the juyce or wateris fingulet good for hot and red inflamedeyes,if fome thereof be dropped into them, or they bathed therewith, the faid juyce or wateris alfo of excellent propertie for all pufl es, wheales,and otker e- tuptions of hot and fharpe humours into thejfacé or hands, or other parts of the bedyto bath them therewith,and helpeth to take away any redneffe in the face,and fpots or othér deformities of the skinne, and to make the skin cleare 22 Alfie maxima, The greateR. 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